What can I do to prevent garbeled Japanese characters when I open a notebook file saved as HTML in TextEdit?
 Instead of displaying the HTML code, TextEdit in Mac OS X will display an HTML document as the web page by default. When Mathematica converts a notebook file to HTML (using ), the resulting HTML will not have the <meta> tags necessary to display Japanese characters. Japanese characters are therfore displayed incorrectly. Depending on how you want to edit HTML documents, you can try one of the two workarounds: If you wish to display HTML code: | 3. | In the section “Processing Rich Text”, check “Ignore Richtext commands in HTML.” |
| 4. | You should now be able to edit the HTML code. (HTML is displayed as code.) |
If you wish to display the file as a web page instead of HTML code: | 1. | Do the same steps as above so that HTML document can be edited. |
| 2. | Open HTML document, and add the following tag between <head> and </head>: |
| | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=x-sjis"> |
| | <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=x-sjis">
<title> Japanese Character </title>
</head> |
| 3. | Uncheck “Ignore Richtext Commands in HTML” in the Preferences window. Then, HTML file should be displayed as a web page. |
| 4. | Since TextEdit is not an editor for web document, it is not recommended for the use of viewing a web document for editing HTML document. |
To edit HTML document in a text editor, we recommend you following the steps in the section “If you wish to display HTML codes”.  Download this FAQ as a Mathematica 5.2 Notebook
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